“You are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.” Jon4.2 ESV
When we compare God to some great power in nature, saying that He is like the tempest or an immense storm, these comparisons, if we are not careful, can be misleading and clutter our understanding of how the Scriptures reveal Him. Once a friend of C. S. Lewis compared God’s anger to a live electrical wire, to illustrate that God doesn’t feel anger toward us in a personal way but if we act inappropriately toward Him we may get shocked, even electrocuted. I am sure this brother was attempting to placate those who reject the notion that God has an angry side to Him, who somehow believe that if God gets angry He is not a loving God.
C. S. Lewis challenged his friend and responded, “What do you suppose you have gained by substituting the image of a live wire for that of angered majesty? You have shut us all up in despair, for the angry can forgive and electricity can’t.” 7/17/2008 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
